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World Rugby has confirmed Australia and New Zealand as Women’s Rugby World Cup 2021 host candidates after each union submitted their bid responses to the international federation by the 10 August deadline.

Kenya enjoyed an emphatic victory over Tunisia in Nairobi to guarantee at worst a place in the global repechage for Rugby World Cup 2019 and set up a Rugby Africa Gold Cup title decider with Namibia next weekend that will also determine the Africa 1 qualifier for Japan 2019.

World Rugby Chairman Bill Beaumont describes record USA broadcast audiences for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 in San Francisco as “a major endorsement of a sport that is rapidly converting new fans” in one of the world’s most competitive sports markets.